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title: Ollie's mum turns the wifi off at 8pm, and his squad thought he kept… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie's mum turns the wifi off at 8pm, and his squad thought he kept rage-quitting, until he told them about the 8pm rule. Who acts: mum, squad. A sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi, sentence 20

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Ollie's mum turns the wifi off at 8pm, and his squad thought he kept rage-quitting, until he told them about the 8pm rule.

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**Who acts:** mum, squad · **What happens:** turn off, think, keep, quit, tell · **To what, where:** wifi, 8, cards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mum, squad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:20
# text = Ollie's mum turns the wifi off at 8pm, and his squad thought he kept rage-quitting, until he told them about the 8pm rule.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wifi	wifi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	squad	squad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	quitting	quit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
29	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** | present | Ollie's mum | the wifi |  | 8  pm |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wifi=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ollie's squad |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | squad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **quit** | gerund | squad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | squad |  | cards *= card* |  |  | about the 8 rule | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about rule=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:20`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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